Improvement in horse-blankets or lap-robes



II is a cross-section,

UNITED STATES PATENT Onnron.

GEORGE V. SHEPARD, OF TROY, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN HORSE-BLANKETS OR LAP-R OBES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1 58,990, dated January 19, 1875; application filed January 14, 1875.

' 1' 0 all whom it may concern do hereby declare the following to be a full,

clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings making part of this specification, in which- Figure I is a plan View, with the face and inner layer folded back at one corner. Fig. showing the improved construction.

The object of my invention is to produce a cheap horse-blanket or lap-robe, Which shall have a neat and pleasing appearance; and it consists in backing a knitted fabric-face with some stout and cheap material, and then lining the whole with some light but well-finished goods of any kind. By this means I am enabled to produce a lap-robe of equal weight and finish with those now in the market, at about fifteen per cent. reduction from the present market prices.

In the said drawings, A is piece of knitted fabric cut in-any desired form for a lap-robe.

bound with an appropriate binding.

B is a piece of burlap, felt, shoddy, or other cheap material, corresponding in sizeto the piece of knitted goods A. A piece of thin, cheap, but well-finished goods, 0, corresponding in size to the pieces A and B, is then laid upon the piece B, and all three are stitched together around the outer edge and then The pieces A and B may be fastened together at intervals by stitches or cementing. I11 some instances I prefer to fasten A and B together by lines of cement or stitches running longitudinally and about three inches apart.

Having thus described my invention, what I I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As a new article of manufacture a horse blanket or lap-robe, consisting of the knitted fabric-face A, middle pieceB of burlap, shoddy, or equivalent material, and lining, 0, substantially as described.

GEO. V. SHEPARD. Witnesses:

WILL. H. MOXON, A. H. EVANS. 

